{"id":77838,"date":"2025-11-01T12:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77838"},"modified":"2025-11-01T12:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:40:16","slug":"jamb-flags-2658-illegal-admissions-in-17-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/01\/jamb-flags-2658-illegal-admissions-in-17-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMB Flags 2,658 Illegal Admissions in 17 Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has uncovered 2,658 illegal admissions conducted by 17 universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education during the 2024\/2025 academic session.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the list is Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University with 1,847 cases, followed by Osun State University (492) and Abubakar Tafari Ali Polytechnic (148).<\/p>\n<p>Others include the Federal College of Animal and Health Production (66) and the University of Calabar (28).<\/p>\n<p>JAMB said any admission processed outside its Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), is illegal, warning institutions and candidates against bypassing the system.<\/p>\n<p>Education Minister Dr. Tunji Alausa has also cautioned that schools found guilty of admission racketeering will face sanctions, including withdrawal of licences and disciplinary actions against erring officials.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced in 2017, CAPS ensures transparency and merit-based admission.<\/p>\n<p>JAMB further warned that students who accept offers outside CAPS risk being disqualified from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has uncovered 2,658 illegal admissions conducted by 17 universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education during the 2024\/2025 academic session. Leading the list is Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University with 1,847 cases, followed by Osun State University (492) and Abubakar Tafari Ali Polytechnic (148). Others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77840,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77838\/revisions\/77840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}